This morning we went back into town for more groceries.  On the way, we stopped at the Escalante Heritage Center, which has a replica of one of the wagons that plunged through Hole in the Rock:

Portraits of the Hole in the Rock traversal:

In the temporary visitor center, we watched a short film about the San Juan Expedition.  The center also had a few items on display, including the original switchboard from the town of Escalante:

We perused the farming implements out back:

Driving south on Hole in the Rock Trail, we arrived at the unmarked trailhead for Zebra and Tunnel Canyons:

Off we go:

This puddle in the creek bed sported a few hundred tadpoles.  Hopefully they will become frogs before it dries up:

Along the way we found this dry waterfall structure:

Looking into the bowl:

This plant has its roots behind the rock face, where they pop out below:

The kids imitated the sound made by the ants in Them! as taught to them by Bubbe and Zayde:

The “shell” and interior of Moki Marbles, Iron Oxide concretions that fall out of the canyon walls when the softer surrounding Navajo Sandstone weathers away:

After almost three miles of hiking, we reached the mouth of Zebra Canyon:

Moki Marbles still in the wall (right), and weathered out of the wall (left):

The canyon became a slot canyon:

At the end of this serpentine-floored “hallway”, we had to go up:

After getting up, we reached a water filled pothole that we couldn’t get around:

Down we go:

M is quite the canyoneer:

Heading out of Zebra Canyon:

We hiked towards Tunnel Canyon:

Tunnel Canyon is sealed at the top, creating a tunnel:

More Moki Marbles:

On the other side, we found a bit of water and a huge bee colony coming out of a crack in the rock:

Heading back in:

Shadows lengthened as we made our way back to the truck:

We hiked a little over 7.5 miles.  We were pretty tired by the time we returned home: